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From: Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>
To: nicholas.dokos@hp.com
Cc: Jay McCarthy <jay.mccarthy@gmail.com>, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Repeat every X business days and every Xth day-of-the-week
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2012 09:30:07 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y5qyca00.fsf@norang.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6515.1332052151@alphaville> (Nick Dokos's message of "Sun, 18 Mar 2012 02:29:11 -0400")

Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com> writes:

> Jay McCarthy <jay.mccarthy@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> ... 
>> I also wish that I could specify in some way that an event happens
>> every third Thursday of the month or on the first and third Wednesdays
>> (when my recycling cans are picked up). I don't know of a good way to
>> fit that into the current annotation scheme of + and ++.
>> 
>> If you have any advice about how I could do it myself safely, I'd be
>> happy to try and contribute.
>
> Diary s-exprs can do things like this:
>
>
> * TODO every third Thursday of the month
>   <%%(org-float t 4 3)>
>
> * TODO every first and third Wednesday of the month
>   <%%(or (org-float t 3 1) (org-float t 3 3))>

Except these TODO's don't behave like repeating tasks.  If you mark it
DONE it stays DONE as opposed to cycling back to TODO for the next
occurrence.

Regards,
Bernt

  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-18 13:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-18  5:38 Repeat every X business days and every Xth day-of-the-week Jay McCarthy
2012-03-18  6:29 ` Nick Dokos
2012-03-18 13:30   ` Bernt Hansen [this message]
2012-03-18 13:31 ` Bernt Hansen

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